The lunatic express : discovering the world via its most dangerous buses, boats, trains, and planes /
Carl Hoffman.
- First edition.
- 286 pages : map ; 22 cm
"Discovering the world ... via its most dangerous buses, boats, trains, and planes".
Prologue: Time for prayer -- Americas. Go! ; Hope for Buena Suerte ; Your time comes or it doesn't -- Africa. Agents of death and destruction ; That train is very bad -- Asia. Jalan! Jalan! ; The 290th victim ; I can only cry my eyes ; What to do? ; Scariana ; Hope and wait ; Same, same, but different.
Hoffman takes readers around the globe the way most people experience it and provides an up-close-and-personal view of its most teeming cities and remotest places. An eye-opening look at how welcoming the everyday people of the world can be to a complete stranger.